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| ▲ | gnuplustoejam 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I suggest they buy a laminated map for children, cross it out, and write the old name in so they can sleep at night. | | |
| ▲ | nickthegreek an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Or we could not bend the knee to a single old man throwing a tantrum. | | |
| ▲ | gnuplustoejam an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The same people throwing a tantrum about the inconsequential naming of a lake are now throwing a shit-fit after they discovered their newly beloved MapQuest doesn't show their preferred borders for Palestine, so I'm quite enjoying this play out. | | |
| ▲ | amiga386 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I don't think it's inconsequential. Dictators make spurious announcements in order to see who obeys and who doesn't, and then punish those who didn't, in order to further their own grip on power. Whether the dictator does this one time, or a million times, each time matters. Each time you obey the dictator, other people see you obeying the dictator, which is you handing your credibility to the dictator. It entrenches them further. See The Power of the Powerless for how it played out in the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless#Hav... > Havel uses the example of a greengrocer who displays in his shop the sign Workers of the world, unite! Since failure to display the sign could be seen as disloyalty, he displays it and the sign becomes not a symbol of his enthusiasm for the regime, but a symbol of both his submission to it and humiliation by it. |
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| ▲ | charcircuit an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | What about the executive order reads as someone throwing a tantrum? https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/hono... | | |
| ▲ | d34db33ts an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That such an order exists is the giveaway It's part of the "flood the field with bullshit" scheme of Steve Bannon | |
| ▲ | afavour an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don’t understand why the phrasing of the order matters. It’s very obviously a petulant and childish move made in response to trade negotiation failures with Canada. That’s literally what Trump himself has said: > The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1171557898746... | | |
| ▲ | d34db33ts an hour ago | parent [-] | | Problem with the "childish" take is it waves off the admins statements they intentionally engage in this shit to rile up the terminally online lizard brains This is intentional manipulation |
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| ▲ | ipython an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Weird, one could say that about the person who insisted on this useless change in the first place... | | |
| ▲ | mc32 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yea like naming Army street to Chavez and all the other hundreds of renamings of American place names over the last couple of decades… like we should be up in arms by now we just can’t contend with so much overwhelming change! Or reaming stadiums (which get updated on maps) for sponsorships, renaming towns for sponsorships… we have a never ending stream of renamings to be mad at and wave our ineffectual fists at. |
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| ▲ | AnimalMuppet an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | First, I suspect that if they buy a laminated map for children, it still has the old name, since there hasn't been time to print new ones and work them all the way through the supply chain. Second, I don't think anyone is losing sleep at night over this, except for maybe Trump. But third, yes, some of us do like, in our own small and quiet ways, not to cooperate with pettiness, arbitrary authority, and executive overreach. |
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